Abstract
First, some gossip. During a meeting last year, I heard a story from the director of a middle-ranking medical microbiology laboratory in southern Europe. Staff there had been perplexed by the unexpected, unexplained detection of a coryneform bacterium during routine screening of swabs from a nearby hospital. On five separate occasions, the organism had appeared on MacConkey agar and other cultures, and was at first difficult to identify. Only after the apparent contaminant was sent for further investigation to a reference laboratory elsewhere was part of the mystery solved. There, 16S rRNA gene sequencing showed the organism to be Brevibacterium otitidis.
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